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Kicking off the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago’s 10-year anniversary, please join us at this event to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision of nonviolence as an active, courageous way of life.

The task to reimagine the U.S. "system" is for everyone, especially those of us who haven't yet faced the system's worst impacts. In Dr. King's words:

"I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice." —Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963

"Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.” —Where Do We Go From Here?, 1967

Chicago Area Peace Action invites you in a spirit of curiosity and courage to participate in this event from one of Chicago's leading unarmed safety / violence intervention organizations! Featuring special guests:

🌟 ERNEST CRIM III, Emmy-nominated producer, award-winning educator, and author of “How Black History Can Save Your Life.”

🌟 TRYMAINE LEE, Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist, filmmaker and author of “A Thousand Ways to Die.”